Joel Bessarab

Joel Bessarab (1946-) was a Jewish-American Republican political advisor and businessman from New York City.

Biography
Joel Bessarab was born in Ploesti, Romania in 1946 to a Jewish family, and his family emigrated to the United States when he was young, fleeing the communist regime during the height of the Cold War. Bessarab was raised in Brooklyn, New York City, and he became the founder and CEO of the New Managerial Styles and Solutions consultancy firm. In 1980 and 1984, he campaigned for the Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan in New York City, his first involvement in politics. In 1992, he launched a failed bid for the State Senate as a conservative Republican, but he was elected to the Kings County Republican Committee. In 2002, he joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration as a political advisor, helping him coordinate his 2005 and 2009 mayoral re-election bids.